After seeing the resistance efforts of others fail or after living under harsh repression, many people develop feelings of helplessness and hopelessness. Thus, people collectively obey because they believe things cannot change and they feel there is no hope for the future… [read more]
This is the second straight day with Romney enjoying a 4-point advantage, according to the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll. Prior to that, with the exception of the convention bounces, neither candidate had led by more than three points for months. However, it is not clear whether this represents a lasting change in the race or is merely statistical noise. In Ohio, the race is now tied at 48%.
A short film about the search for a dog provides a vivid insight into life in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa. Directed by Miguel Llansó and Yohannes Feleke. Screened at the International Film Festival in Rotterdam.
To break any habit, including obedience to authority, we must make a deliberate decision to quit, constantly remind ourselves of that decision, and reiterate why it is important to break the habit. Breaking the obedience habit is a difficult task, just like quitting smoking. Both the decision to stop, and reiteration about why it is so important to stop, are constantly required… [read more]
(Yahoo News) — Adam Woldemarim, the driver, discovered the cash stuffed in a soft laptop case that was left between the seats of the Virgin Valley Cab vehicle. Woldemarim then did what anyone feeling lucky in Sin City would do: He turned it in.
The 42-year-old from Ethiopia took the case to the cab company’s security office, which soon got a call from the case’s owner, who, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, “won big at the Wynn and was on his way to the airport when he [realized] he forgot a little something.”
Woldemarim was called back to the security office, where the big winner gave him a $2,000 reward.
But according to the Review-Journal, Woldemarim’s friends and fellow cabdrivers are wondering where the rest of his tip is:
That’s all?” they ask. “How about 10 percent, at least? That’s $20,000!”
Others yell, “How about 15 or 20 percent? That’s the going rate for tips in Vegas, after all.”
“It would have been nice if my good friend got more money,” Alex “Baharu” Alebachew, a fellow cabbie, told the paper. “But I think the most important thing here is that a lot of people think foreign cabdrivers like us abuse tourists or they long haul their customers or we’re just here causing problems and we don’t belong here. They never see the good side to us, the honest side. If you can just print that, that would be nice.”
A refusal to cooperate is all that is needed to render a Fascistic regime powerless. Moral obligation is the belief that an act is one prescribed by a persons set of values. It is also a duty, which one owes, and which one ought to perform, but is not legally bound to fulfill. Moral obligation (or the “common good of society”) comes from the assumption that “the laws protect all citizens,” people sometimes feel a moral obligation to obey even the most hated tyrants because they want to “maintain order” and feel that the “laws are made for people to respect them”… [read more]